- Assistant Director
- Linda Bilheimer
- Deputy Assistant Directors
- Melinda B. Buntin (Health)
- James Baumgardner (Health, income security, employment, and long-term modeling)
- Unit Chiefs
- Gregory Acs (Income security and employment)
- Joyce M. Manchester (Long-Term Modeling Group)
- Senior Advisor
- Jessica S. Banthin (Health insurance modeling)
- Division Administrative Assistant
- Ronald L. Moore
- Analysts
- Michael Levine (Research assistant)
- Nabeel A. Alsalam (Education and labor markets)
- William J. Carrington (Income security and labor markets)
- Anna E. Cook (Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical industry)
- Molly W. Dahl (Income security, labor markets)
- Noelia J. Duchovny (Medicare payments to physicians, Medicaid, obesity, disability)
- Stuart A. Hagen (Private health insurance, uninsured, long-term care, medical malpractice, Medicaid)
- Paul Jacobs (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Jimmy Jin (Research assistant)
- Noah P. Meyerson (Long-term Social Security and budget projections)
- Alexandra L. Minicozzi (Private health insurance, uninsured)
- Lyle Nelson (Medicare, State Children's Health Insurance Program, uninsured)
- Romain Parsad (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
- Allison Percy (Health insurance, health IT)
- Charles Pineles-Mark (Model development)
- Jonathan A. Schwabish (Labor force and earnings micro-modeling)
- Michael S. Simpson (Model development)
- Julie Somers (Health provider and payer markets, health modeling, prescription drugs)
- Julie H. Topoleski (Social Security, Medicare, long-term health micro-modeling)
- Christopher Zogby (Computer modeling, survey analysis)
- Tamara Hayford (Health policy, prescription drugs)
Health and Human Resources Division
Telephone: (202) 226-2666
Fax: (202) 225-3149
The Health and Human Resources Division analyzes policies and programs in the areas of health (Medicare, Medicaid, public health, and private health markets), Social Security and pensions, labor markets (employment, wages, training), income assistance, education, housing, and social services. The staff perform detailed analyses of proposed legislation, develop models that underlie a number of CBO's cost estimates, prepare studies for the Congress, and assess the impact of legislative initiatives on the private sector.
Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources
Linda Bilheimer rejoined CBO in June 2011. Earlier, from 1991 to 1999, she had been an analyst in and then a deputy assistant director of the division that she now leads. In between her times at CBO, Dr. Bilheimer was a senior program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and, most recently, the Associate Director for Analysis and Epidemiology at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she oversaw a group of about 70 epidemiologists, statisticians, demographers, physicians, and programmers. Before coming to CBO the first time, Dr. Bilheimer was an assistant professor of biometry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; the Director, Division of Health Statistics and Epidemiology at the Arkansas Department of health; and a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research.
Dr. Bilheimer’s recent research has focused on evaluating metrics of population health, measurement issues in analyzing health disparities, and trends in health insurance coverage. Her work has been published in Health Services Research and Health Affairs, among other journals. Linda Bilheimer earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and her B.A. in economics and economic statistics from the University of York, in the United Kingdom.